Not really. If you actually have experience with it, you'll discover it's one of the simplest things you can do in Emergency.
All you need is a baby (neonate = baby less than 6 weeks old) in respiratory distress (which for our purposes will mean grunting when breathing)... and the transilluminator. That's simply a fiber optic cable mounted to a wheelie frame which may or may not have specially coloured light (preferably red). After that it's a matter of shining the light and seeing if the light goes through more than it should.
In principle the procedure has to be simple. Any kind of pneumothorax is an emergency.
Pneumomediastinum can be worse than pneumothorax, since the aorta, aortic arch vessels, and the superior vena cava can all be compressed and prevent blood return from the body to the lungs and heart... although it rarely comes to that since the air tracks up towards the neck under the skin. Usually, these kids have some sort of tracheal or esophageal disruption and those must be fixed. Unless of course the doctors did it to them (nosocomial injury) through ventilator damage from high PIP/PEEP or high oscillator ventilation... and then it still has to be fixed.
It's a good article, but no one is going to rely on transillumination. They'd fix the pneumothorax, get an urgent CT scan of the chest and then scream for a pediatric surgeon to come lend a hand if the kid were doing poorly.
Hrm, since where on the topic of google, if you search....lets say......God, for example. But spell it wrong, such as "Gdo"
It will then come up with "Did you mean God?" Then in the search bar, erase god, and type in anything, such as "Strop" But don't hit search. This now makes for epic screen shot lawls.
